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412 civil service classes Books required -Barnard Smith's Arithmetic Macmillan 4s 6d Anderson's Class Book of Geography Nelson Is 9d Hamblin Smith's Algebra Rivington 3s Histoire de Charles XII Surenne's edition Simpkin 15 Qd Books recommended -Spelling Vocabulary Chambers 6d Davidson and Alcock's Grammar Allman 2s Todhunter's Euclid Macmillan 3s 6d Philips' First School Atlas Is Curtis's Outlines of Geography Simpkin 6d King's College Tots 6d to be had at the College by Students only Inquiries respecting this Class should be addressed to the Secretary King's College or to Mr Walke Heaton Road Peckham Rye Examinations are held annually in May for about 50 Studentships applications to attend must be forwarded to the Admiralty before March 1st Limits of age 14 and 16 Successful candidates are required to pay the Admiralty £25 per year for the first three years of their training but this money is returned in small weekly payments Board and lodging are provided gratuitously and the students are educated free of expense After six years' training they receive Commissions in Her Majesty's Navy as Assistant Engineers and pass through course of higher instruction at the Royal Naval College Greenwich Full pay including mess-allowances -Assistant Engineers first year £137 next three or four years £164 per year Assistants then become Engineers with salaries rising from £191 to £228 At about the age of 35 Engineers become Chief Engineers with salaries rising from £264 to £429 As vacancies occur Chief Engineers are appointed Inspectors of Machinery and receive from £500 to £650 per year Chief Engineers and some Engineers also receive charge money varying from £20 to £100 per year After about thirty years' service an Engineer Officer who has been pro moted in the usual course can secure retirement of from £400 to £450 per year Inspectors of Machinery rank with Captains in the Navy and Colonels in the Army